Here’s a unpopular opinion: invading your neighbours being wrong aside, I feel like eating dog meat isn’t morally any worse than eating a pigs or cows. (Assuming they’re not someone’s pet).
I’m vegetarian, and feel it’s unhelpful and judgy to get mad at people for eating meat, I just think people give countries where dogs are eaten way too much crap. To the point I even think it’s subtly racist to judge other cultures for eating dog meat (again, I think we certainly should judge Russia and North Korea for invading).
Dogs are cute, but heck cows are too, so like don’t get riled up about people eating one, if you happy eating the other.
I don’t think that’s the issue really. Generally dog is not a premium meat, for meat reasons. Historically you hear of people resorting to eating dog meat when times are very tough. Edit given the chance, people don’t ranch dogs.
Not that military rations are ever great, but the idea that a country is using a “poor” meat in what should be a streamlined process of making MREs speaks to the instability in north korea.
Nah, I have personally read plenty of online outrage, and heard in person, numerous times people making moral judgements about eating dogs.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it’s practical, or good eating. Nor am I making comment on North Korea. Just take issue with people having a go over the morality of eating dogs.
I’m saying that’s not the issue for a military, which would give no such shits.
Or the “Russian sources” are just being racist because dog meat isn’t even a good candidate for rations as carnivores, by their very nature, are resource inefficient to raise for meat.
Even if you assume they’re 100% kibble fed it’s pretty suspect.
Now what might be funny is if dog is treated as a luxury meat and the rations were either a special treat or fake dog…
I had it when I was in China in 2015. It’s not that good. Chicken, pork, or beef are way better.
I think it’s generally a culture thing; you don’t eat your beasts of burden (oxen, horses, etc) and you don’t eat your animaux de compagnie. Not just because they’re useful and you would more than likely have a connection to them, but generally speaking, these are very lean animals, barely any fat on them, plus the fact that unless you know what you’re doing and make the slaughtering of your animal quick and painless, endocrines get released into the muscle tissue, making the meat bitter.
